junkerdom

English

Etymology

From junker +‎ -dom.

Noun

junkerdom (uncountable)

1. The policies or attitudes of junkers (German aristocrats etc.).
   • 1915, The Cambridge Magazine, volume 5, page 342:

     Our only hope of a lasting peace is so to act now, and in the hour of victory, that junkerdom may seem to all German peoples a discreditable thing.

   • 1918, William Allen White, The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me:

     But junkerdom in Germany alone among the nations of the earth rests on the divine right of kings that is the last resort of privilege.